Despite an African Union report warning the election would not be fair, the vote looks set to extend Omar al-Bashir's 26-year rule.

Frank Bainimarama has pulled off the unlikely feat of making the transition from military coup leader in 2006 (above) to Fiji’s democratically elected prime minister in Wednesday’s election.
AAP/Mick TsikasSeptember 19, 2014

This was the way it was meant to be, at least in the eyes of Fiji’s self-appointed prime minister and self-styled rear-admiral, Frank Bainimarama. The 2014 election, the country’s first since his 2006…